Reduction and methylation of mercury in the terrestrial isopod Porcellio scaber (Crustacea) and its environment

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1697-1704

  Nolde, Nataša ^a   Drobne, Damjana ^b   Horvat, Milena ^a   Jereb, Vesna ^a  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Mercury methylation; Mercury reduction; Methylmercury; Porcellio scaber; Radiotracer

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; FOOD PRODUCTS; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; POSITIVE IONS; REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; EXCRETION; ISOPOD'S DIGESTIVE FLORA; ISOPODS; METHYLATION;

MERCURY (METAL);

MERCURY; MERCURY 203; METHYLMERCURY;

ECOTOXICOLOGY; ISOPOD; MERCURY (ELEMENT); METHYLATION; METHYLMERCURY; REDUCTION;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CRUSTACEA; DEMETHYLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL RELEASE; EXCRETION; FECES; FOOD INTAKE; HAZELNUT; HEPATOPANCREAS; INTESTINE FLORA; ISOPODA; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOTRANSFORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; MERCURY; METHYLATION;

ANIMALIA; CORYLUS; CRUSTACEA; ISOPODA; PORCELLIO SCABER;

EID: 21444446389     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/04-401R.1     Document Type: Article

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